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Manganese Blood

Alternative Names:

Blood Manganese

Laboratory:

Clinical Biochemistry

Test Code:

WBMANG

Specimen Types:

Blood

Container Types:

Metal-Free EDTA

Adults Volume or Mass:

5 mL

Transport Instructions between Sites and/or Laboratories:

RoomTemp within Alfred/Esky from External sites

Assay Frequency:

Weekly

Additional Notes:

Reference Interval: 0.1 - 0.33 umol/L

Manganese concentrations between 1 and 2 times the upper limit of normal may be due to differences in hematocrit and normal biological variation. Values greater than twice the upper limit of normal correlate with disease. For longitudinal monitoring, sampling no more frequently than the half-life of the element (40 days) should be used.